Video: Detroit grandma wins shootout with two attackers

posted at 6:01 pm on May 8, 2014 by Allahpundit

Via Bob Owens at Bearing Arms, in a “better world” without concealed carry, they would have robbed her blind and maybe shot her in the face for good measure. Alas, in the fallen world in which we live, she took the chief’s advice and sent them to the hospital.

Would they have fired at her if they hadn’t seen her go for her gun first, though? Yep, she says. No doubt:

“Don’t pull it,” one of the men warned, she told WDIV.

He shot, putting four bullets in the 51-year-old woman, three of them lodging in her side and the other in her free hand.

She answered back with some choice words and a volley of gunfire, putting a bullet in each leg of one of the men…

“This is ludicrous, the way that they are just robbing and trying to take stuff from people, and killing people,” she told WDIV. “He didn’t shoot me because he felt that I was going to shoot him. He didn’t care. He just shot. He didn’t look like, ‘Oh my God I shouldn’t have.’ He just had the devil in him.”

Owens has an interesting analysis of the psychology of a gunfight. What tends to happen, especially once someone’s hit, is that they’ll wilt (sometimes literally) under the pressure and simply quit in order to stop the fight. Ainsworth took four hits and still kept coming. No wonder they call her “Rambo.”

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Whoa! You go, girl. Each and everyone one of us has the God given right to self protection (defense) and, in fact, the mandate to protect human life – unless there is some azzwipe trying to take yours. Then, all bets are off.

She keeps voting for the same people who want to disarm her and make it easier for those “with the devil in their eyes” to do her harm without fear of her being able to defend herself from certain death..

Owens has an interesting analysis of the psychology of a gunfight. What tends to happen, especially once someone’s hit, is that they’ll wilt (sometimes literally) under the pressure and simply quit in order to stop the fight.

Nice street. Good field of fire.
Good response seeing that she was hit before she returned fire.
Look like Hornady 185 grn HP’s or perhaps 230′s (if she was serious) … either one is good round for a fight.

KEEP the initial rule of a successful gun fight in mind ALWAYS:The Fastest gun in a fight is The ONE ALREADY IN YOUR HAND!

“I saw them coons once chilling on their porch when i drove by – don’t they know that they were freer pickin cotton and getting tortured at their owner’s whim? Can’t we at least discuss this important and rational question?”

Knives take skill that she didn’t have. Guns are equalizers for women.

slickwillie2001 on May 8, 2014 at 6:41 PM

Killing someone with a knife takes a hell of a lot more energy than killing with a gun. You think these idiot pissants would be running all over starting knife fights?

No.

What’s more grandma could have carried any number of non-lethal weapons. You know the great thing about those? Your way there was a real good chance grandma wasn’t fast on the draw and winds up dead. My way everyone lives regardless.

A 45 ACP JHP in the leg… if it got a meaty enough portion, would be VERY bad… like amputation bad. Could have easily gone through without even expanding, though. I’m kind of curious about their condition.

Killing someone with a knife takes a hell of a lot more energy than killing with a gun. You think these idiot pissants would be running all over starting knife fights?

No.

What’s more grandma could have carried any number of non-lethal weapons. You know the great thing about those? Your way there was a real good chance grandma wasn’t fast on the draw and winds up dead. My way everyone lives regardless.

Tlaloc on May 8, 2014 at 7:03 PM

What makes you think the assailants wouldn’t have a gun? Because it’s against the law? Hahahahahahahahah! They surly wouldn’t have beat the cr@p out of her to get what they wanted either would they.

A 45 ACP JHP in the leg… if it got a meaty enough portion, would be VERY bad… like amputation bad. Could have easily gone through without even expanding, though. I’m kind of curious about their condition.

Capricio on May 8, 2014 at 7:09 PM

It’s too bad they were only injured, now they get medical care on our dime and probably get some training in prison on how to be better criminals. These are no-doubt fatherless delinquents that are going to kill someone eventually.

I distinctly remember jumping up and down when I read the Police Chief’s recommendation that the populace arm themselves !!
Somebody needed to say it (you know, speak common sense) for that logic to sink in, I guess.
Good goin’, granny !!

No, no. It’s not just sticks and stones. He’s right. You’re an idiot. Your entire commentary is comprised of some of the most inane and eye-rolling stupidity I’ve ever read here. Just painful to read your stupid comments. Sorry. But just painful.

She is a health care worker, and she was coming home from working a DOUBLE SHIFT. From her implied work ethic, what she experiences at work witnessing ObamaCare in action, and her recent self-defense experience, she may be changing her (presumed) voting habits this year.

Tlaloc is one of those who knows no history or the fact that where there are not guns, there are knives, and they kill too. If some goon wants your stuff, or wants you dead, if you cannot defend yourself, too bad.

People like Tlaloc who focus only on the tool just aren’t very smart.

To your point – if no one had guns, gramma if she resisted from having her stuff taken, would probably have been beaten or stabbed, maybe killed. And the perps would have gotten away free and clear. His imagination is pretty limited. As is his mind.

It looks like a nice neighborhood, too (the houses are well-kept). She has a CHL, and trains regularly -she’s on the ball. I’d just worry about their homies, and possible retaliation. She might end up having to defend herself again.

A non-professional (police, military) using a strong firearm (.45 verses .32 or .38) shooting at a distance of 20+ feet, while under the stress of already being hit, from multiple attackers – I am IMPRESSED!!
Our trained professionals, especially the police, often don’t react as well, and with such accuracy.
What ever was going through her mind that allowed her to deal with the stress and maintain enough control enough to hit what she was aiming – needs to be taught to all professionals.